Eclipse

Morgha_Kul · June 2019

I hadn't been using it, but decided to level up Eclipse on my Templar. However, I find I can't USE it most of the time, it's greyed out and unusuable. On those rare occasions when I CAN use it, it puts a globe around the enemy (visually cool), but does almost nothing to them. It's supposed to do damage to them when they attack, but the duration is SO short, it typically only affects them once, then greys out and can't be used anymore. Plus, the damage is insignificant.

So, what's the point of this power? It's virtually unusable.

Baconlad · June 2019

Um, let's see here.
The skill is designed to act in place of a CC. It gives CC immunity when you cast it and for 6 seconds after the effect ends.

The reason they made it go off of CC time was they didn't just want it to act as an extra dot, they reworked it from the old days where it actually reflected all abilities casted from the target (back then you couldn't just CC break it). So in order to retain its strong value, and something you used smartly and not part of your rotation, they made it give CC immunity.

The skill was nerfed in damage by 25% it was so strong last patch. Almost every magplar ran it. The total dark morph also heals you for huge amounts.

To put it more into perspective, when I know my enemy is about to drop some heat on me, I'll throw it on him. It cause a few things to happen. It will almost always hit atleast one time giving me 9k tooltip heal and hitting him for almost 9k tooltip.
If hes a dummy, and doesn't break it than every .75 seconds he gonna get hit again by it. If he does break it, I just interrupted his combo. Which is the goal on defensively using any CC. It's more used as a defense to punish enemies for hitting you than an offensive tool. If ur enemies running away and not hitting anything it will not deal damage.

It's actually an incredible skill, even after the nerf, while it's up and running it's still dealing 50% of my damage to a single enemy. Awesome skill, learn to use it

Baconlad · June 2019

Also man. If you dont find its dealing enough damage. Race that sucker to total dark morph and max it out EXP wise. Then work on you build a bit more to get higher damage tooltip. Last patch I had a build that ran 13k tooltip on total dark, in one second, hitting twice I was smacking for the same amount as my dark flare. Which has a cast time and HAD (Was nerfed into the ground this patch) a 27k tooltip on it.

UntilValhalla13 · June 2019

If it's greyed out sometimes, it probably means the target has cc immunity.

Morgha_Kul · June 2019

But... it doesn't do any kind of crowd control. Why would it act as if it does?
Also, as far as damage is concerned, it lasts about 3 seconds. Enemies will typically attack me once in that time... sometimes not even that often. As a result, they only take damage once, and for a relatively trivial amount. I could slot the tier 1 Dawn's Wrath skill and do roughly 5 times the damage to multiple targets for a fraction of the magicka cost. I'm just not seeing the value of Eclipse in any way.